All About Eve

Bette Davis' tour de force performance in All About Eve resurrected her fading career at 42, in an era where starring roles for ageing actresses were non-existent. She plays Margo Channing, an ageing Broadway star with a penchant for Martinis and bon mots. Starlet Anne Baxter is Eve, a wide-eyed ingénue who insinuates herself into Margo's life and social circle, with an eye to taking her throne. From writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz - a filmmaker notorious for movies exploring the female psyche - All About Eve scooped the major awards at the 1951 Oscars and BAFTAs.

All four of the lead actresses garnered an Oscar nomination - still the only film in history to achieve such a feat. Also features Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest film roles.